Class 11 Economics - Indian Economic Development - Chapter Indian Economy 1950-1990 NCERT Solutions | Explain how import substitution can prot

Why was the public sector given a leading role in industrial development during the planning period?

Match the following:

What is marketable surplus?

What is the Green Revolution? Why was it implemented and how did Does it benefit the farmers? Explain in brief.

Explain ‘growth with equity’ as a planning objective.

Why was it necessary for a developing country like India to follow self-reliance as a planning objective?

Why and how was the private sector regulated under the IPR 1956?

Why should plans have goals?

Define a plan?

Why did India opt for planning?

What was the focus of the economic policies pursued by the colonial government in India? What were the impacts of these policies?

What are the two major sources of human capital in a country?

What do you mean by rural development? Bring out the key issues in rural development.

Who is a worker?

Explain the term ‘infrastructure’.

What is meant by environment?

Why are regional and economic groupings formed?

Why were reforms introduced in India?

Why calorie-based norm is not adequate to identify the poor?

Name some notable economists who estimated India’s per capita income during the colonial period?

Are the following workers — a beggar, a thief, a smuggler, a gambler? Why?

Why are employment generation programmes important in poverty alleviation in India?

What is the meaning of quantitative restrictions?

Why is it necessary to became a member of WTO?

Trace the relationship between human capital and economic growth.

Establish the need for acquiring information relating to health and education expenditure for the effective utilisation of human resources.

Analyse the recent trends in sectoral distribution of workforce in India.

What are the major factors responsible for the high growth of the service sector?

Explain the role of micro-credit in meeting credit requirements of the poor.

 What was the two-fold motive behind the systematic de-industrialisation affected by the British in pre-independent India?